Scorching
חֲרִישִׁיStrong’s H2759charishi (cha-ri-shi)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Charishi is the Hebrew word usually translated “hot”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.”
Meaning
- Harsh, hot, sultry, silent (meaning uncertain)
How it's translated
- hot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jonah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חֲרִישִׁי charishi · scorching
harsh, hot, sultry, silent (meaning uncertain)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scorching” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCORCH'ING, participle present
tense Burning on the surface; paining by heat.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.